which do you prefere?

[Spray]

LOL the 7600 without a doubt I got a 7600GT and was upgrading of a 9600XT there is an extreme visible difference in some games in one I managed to set High all gfx instead of Low all in my 9600XT and the 7600GT still outperformed in FPS 4 fold. Without a doubt the 7600.

[Spray]

Oh and if you can get a 7600GT go for that the 7600GS has 512mb of memory but can't use it all so its useless its more of a show offish kinda thing which doesn't really work. The 7600GT has higher clockspeeds and outperforms it quite visibly. Its also about $20 or so dollars more expensive.

[Venatore]

I haven't got either of these, but its interesting to see what players prefer. :hmm:

[NipplesTheCat]

You do know that PCI and PCI express are different right?

[Brag]

Hi have a Pny 5200, it works ok with GWX. Before GWX I used the onboard card for stock SHIII

[Jimbuna]

The 7600 every time

[Kingcobra24]

Just upgraded about 2 weeks ago to ATI's ultimate.

Ati H195cf512-650 Vdo 512mb Pci-e X1950 Crossfire" Graphics Card

[GhOsT55]

Originally Posted by NipplesTheCat

You do know that PCI and PCI express are different right?

i think so i got a socket 775
i also got 2 pci expansion ports and 2 dimm ports

[GhOsT55]

also would any of the 7 series run sh3?

[Spray]

Originally Posted by GhOsT55

also would any of the 7 series run sh3?

Are you joking? The 7950GTX is the best DX9 card out there at the mo and the 7600GT is a High Mid Range card. I sometimes find that researching a topic is good it gives you quite a bit of knowledge. Now when I was building my computer I went through planning for 5 days researching all the parts will they work will they fit are they a good bang for buck. At the card range I was looking at the 7600GT was same pricing as a X1600 even though it totally creamed it in tests. If you ever have any questions on cards just google 7600GT vs X1600 and you'll come up with comparisons none of these tests work if you get an artifact card such as the 9250. EG 9250 vs 7600GT I highly doubt you would get any results I beleive the 9250 was a good card.... 2 or 3 possibly even 4 years ago. 7600GT is highly reccomended and will play all modern games at a fairly high setting and SH3 at all high full AA and still give you some good performance.

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by GhOsT55

i think so i got a socket 775
i also got 2 pci expansion ports and 2 dimm ports

What he is saying is that PCI-Express expansion slots and PCI expansion slots are completely different.

PCI-Express cards will not fit in PCI slots. Totally different things. If you are stuck with 'regular' PCI, the best card ever released for that format was the VisionTek Radeon X1300 PCI. If you want the fastest PCI nVidia card, the best option is the 3dFuzion GeForce 6200 PCI. But either way, you pay through the nose for such a 'modern' GPU running through such an ancient interface.

[Dantenoc]

When buying hardware you should consider software first, always!

nVidia has the upper hand over ATI in that regard, since most of today's top games are designed with the nVidia card in mind (remember the advertisement: "The way it's meant to be played")

Now, in regard to SH3, please kind in mind that no matter what card you have, even on a super ninja computer, you'll still get poor performance from time to time... it's just wasn't written robustly enough to avoid those strange hickups when in high performance demand situations, even if you're computer can run it blazingly fast on all other situations (Specialy if you mod it)